Poetry Reading -Partnership Event with Fairfax Recreation and Wayfinder Bookstore
Need to know
- Ages: All are welcome
- Location: Fairfax Women’s Club – 46 Park Road
- Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
- Time: 6pm
- Cost: Free
- Contact: Anne Mannes
About the program
On Friday, October 24th at 6pm, join us at the Fairfax Women’s Club in Fairfax, CA for a celebratory evening of poetry hosted by Wayfinder and Point Reyes Books. We’ll hear from established local authors reading from their latest: Terra Oliveira’s Itinerant Songs, Michelle Latvala’s Between Latitudes, and Cathryn Shea’s Ghost Matinee.
Terra Oliviera
Terra Oliveira is the author of Itinerant Songs, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge, The Common, Puerto del Sol, Protean Magazine, and more.
Her poetry and illustration collection, An Old Blue Light, won the Where Are You Press Poetry Contest in 2015, and she has been awarded international residencies at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at the Great Wall of China, and elsewhere. With a degree in documentary film production from San Francisco State University, she has published two photography books featured in BUST Magazine, SELF Magazine, and others, and her films have screened at Napa Valley Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, and around the world.
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, her family lineages migrated from the Hawaiian Islands, the Azores, Southern China, Guadalajara, and throughout Europe. She writes from a working class, anti-imperialist lens that also communicates the sanctity of things: of water, of land, of spirit, and of people. Her work is an extension of her core practices and beliefs: in recovery, community building, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples’ movements globally.
https://www.terraoliveira.com/
Cathryn Shea
Author email: cathy.shea11@gmail.com
Author book title: Ghost Matinee
ISBN: 978-1-963115-33-8
Cathryn Shea’s second full-length poetry collection is “Ghost Matinee” (April 2025). Her first is “Genealogy Lesson for the Laity” (both with Unsolicited Press of Portland, Oregon). A Best of the Net nominee, Cathryn’s poetry has been widely anthologized and has appeared in Rust + Moth, Poet Lore, Quiddity, Gargoyle, and extensively elsewhere. Cathryn is a fourth-generation northern Californian living with her family in Fairfax, CA. You can find more at her website at: www.cathrynshea.com
Michelle Latvala, author of Between Latitudes,
Michelle Latvala is an experienced leader, facilitator, and author with a deep commitment to humanity, nature, and authenticity. She currently serves as Faculty for David Whyte’s Institute for Conversational Leadership, previously led Spirit Rock Meditation Center as Executive Director from 2011-2022, and was Vice President of Leadership Development at Backroads Active Travel from 2000-2010. Michelle’s debut book Between Latitudes was published by Green Writers Press earlier this year, profoundly addressing themes of climate, ancestry, bodies, nature, kinship and more through her accessible, intimate, and deeply relevant poetry. In 2023, Michelle founded Insight Outside, a series of remote programs that combine meditation, writing, and wilderness, and became part of an international cohort funded by the Bess Family Foundation, centered around expanding Buddhist teachings in nature. She graduated from Stanford University with Phi Beta Kappa honors in Social Psychology. Michelle migrates thoughtfully with her beloveds between responsibilities in northern California and eastern Alaska, where she built a cabin at the same latitude her Finnish ancestors lived for centuries in the circumpolar boreal forest.
https://www.michellelatvala.com/
Chelsea Wills is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and clinical herbalist based in Northern California. Her published works include Home of Milk (Bottlecap Press, 2024), Love Letters from the Moon (2017), and Teach Me How To(Works Progress Agency, 2020). With a Master’s degree from UC Berkeley, she has shown work and taught locally and internationally. Her writing weaves the eroticism of parenting, place-based knowledge, and community healing, centering memory, imagination, and reverent curiosity at the intersection of what it is be a person becoming. http://www.chelseawills.com/